w00t! Exchange box crashed and burned today!

[vi edit]

I warned these fsckers 8 months ago and have continued to tell them every month CLEAN OUT YOUR MAIL FOLDERS!!!

Well, now they learned. Exchange box went down in flames today.

Did the registry fix to raise the size limit temporarily. Having people mass delete stuff out. Will do an online defrag later today and then hit it with an offline one tonight.

This weekend 250 meg mailbox restrictions go into effect. Lessons learned are best learned hard.

 

[Adul]

16GB damn


we have 100 MB restrictions

make them store it offline

 

[RagingBITCH]

I've warned people too. We're about to restrict them as well, although I think 200MB will be the limit. Nothing like people ignoring their emails and the IT department and then when sh!t hits the fan, blaming us. *long day*

 

[Rogue]

Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
I've warned people too. We're about to restrict them as well, although I think 200MB will be the limit. Nothing like people ignoring their emails and the IT department and then when sh!t hits the fan, blaming us. *long day*

Yep, after it crashed and burned a couple people came in to me and said that some upper management were furious that this wasn't prevented.

Funny thing is that the people what were pissed off were the single worst offenders and people I personally met with on MULTIPLE times over the last couple months and said YOU HAVE TO CLEAN THIS UP.

BAH!

 

[Electric Amish]

Nice.

Ours deletes files older than 6mo(?).

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Funny thing is that the people what were pissed off were the single worst offenders and people I personally met with on MULTIPLE times over the last couple months and said YOU HAVE TO CLEAN THIS UP.

BAH!

Have you ever read the BOFH stuff? Sounds like you need to take a more, umm active role in making sure the folders are cleaned up.

 

[slycat]

wtf?...get enterprise edition...problem solved.

 

[iamwiz82]

Newb, mine is 36,536,590,336 bytes

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: slycat
wtf?...get enterprise edition...problem solved.

That's just a band aid. And will be totally abused. And they won't ever approve me the $7000 to bump up to it.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Nice.

Ours deletes files older than 6mo(?).

 

[K1052]

My mailbox size as of today: 471 MB

Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha:evil:

 

[KC5AV]

Originally posted by: Rogue
Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

No kidding. We are limited to 50 megs.

 

[Injury]

send everyone gmail invites

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: KC5AV

Originally posted by: Rogue
Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

No kidding. We are limited to 50 megs.

I've only got about 40 people that have inboxes that stay on the server. 250 puts me right at 10 gig tops assuming all have seperate single instance stuff. Plenty of room to grow if I need to add more.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: slycat
wtf?...get enterprise edition...problem solved.

That's just a band aid. And will be totally abused. And they won't ever approve me the $7000 to bump up to it.

Exactly. That's the equivalent of giving crack heads unlimited crack.

 

[jamesbond007]

I agree that ~50MB of storage is plenty sufficient. If you really need to store that much in your mailbox, I suggest you download the pr0n and jokes into a folder on your own computer or Zip disk.

I don't understand why people would want 1GB storage on sites like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc. If you need that much space, then your organization and effeciency skills are extremely poor.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: KC5AV

Originally posted by: Rogue
Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

No kidding. We are limited to 50 megs.

if you added up every emil i have in 6 different accounts its not even 20 megs

who the hell does one use that much email space, the sending each other movies?

 

[Nitemare]

I'm limited to 35 megs

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: KC5AV

Originally posted by: Rogue
Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

No kidding. We are limited to 50 megs.

if you added up every emil i have in 6 different accounts its not even 20 megs

who the hell does one use that much email space, the sending each other movies?

Any type of CAD drawings eat space for lunch.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: KC5AV

Originally posted by: Rogue
Exmerge all $hit older than a year into PST files and archive it somewhere. That's usually a good starting point. Exmerge is your friend. If you rely on your users to do it, it will NEVER happen, that was your first mistake. 250MB is generous by most standards.

No kidding. We are limited to 50 megs.

if you added up every emil i have in 6 different accounts its not even 20 megs

who the hell does one use that much email space, the sending each other movies?

Do you work in a corporate environment where emails fly all day long, with attachments, spreadsheets, PDFs, powerpoints, demos from clients, etc? Nope, didn't think so. This isn't personal email we're talking about.

 

[vi edit]

You guys don't work for a small company full of accountants.

P&L sheets are 1.5 megs a piece and we get in about 30 of those a week...plus all the pictures we send back and forth for insurance needs, employment applications we get from our retail stores, insurance coverage forms that are emailed, ect.

This a fully independent company spread across half the US. We live off of email for the most part.

 

[Viper GTS]

The company I work for has the most asinine e-mail policy ever. Employees are specifically instructed NOT to delete anything.

We are thus forced to run Exchange 2003 Enterprise with ~55 employees. They preferred dropping $7K to actually having people empty their mailboxes.

We have people with 6 GB mailboxes. A few weeks ago the president had an admin mail the contents of a CD (300 MB) to a half dozen people.

To make matters worse, everyone tries to keep all their sh!t in offline storage files too (gotta have that 6 GB of e-mail everywhere!).

I hate stupid people.

Viper GTS

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: K1052
My mailbox size as of today: 471 MB

Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha:evil:

Bleh. n00b

My mailbox size is 1.223GB.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You guys don't work for a small company full of accountants.

P&L sheets are 1.5 megs a piece and we get in about 30 of those a week...plus all the pictures we send back and forth for insurance needs, employment applications we get from our retail stores, insurance coverage forms that are emailed, ect.

This a fully independent company spread across half the US. We live off of email for the most part.

Sounds more like you need a document/file management system. Perhaps a file server running a searchable indexing service. I hate when people try to use Exchange/Outlook to manage files. All it does it make Exchange that much more of a critical asset that is far more prone to corruption and catastrophic data loss.